Agree with John. Thanks to John for such as wonderful and crisp reply. I too have implemented menus always as 1. Unordered list(html element ul ) 2. Each item as list items (li) and anchors ( a ) 3. Css styled them and added behavior using jquery and modifying the css dynamically on user interaction..
Emily there are a lot of free menu examples/samples with source on web and you can use them to build your menus. However I saw your site, and it shows the intended behavior on mouseovers and clicks. I guess you solved the problem. :) I am using chrome. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:09 AM, John Unsworth <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Emily, > > Firstly the problem you describe might be your browser. I'm using > Safari on a Mac and the desired effect appears to occur, whether I use > the back button or click Home again. So this might be the reason your > not getting the expected effect. > > Secondly, the standards group I would imagine are collectively having > kittens seeing all that table based layout rendered by Dreamweaver. > Whilst there is often some debate, on the whole most people employ a > list for navigation rather than a table, however I'm assuming the > whole page is a table layout and thus whilst I would encourage you to > reconsider, I'm not going to go into an entire rewrite. I would then > suggest to you it's time to learn some CSS. > > Your Dreamweaver behaviours are embedded Javascript(s), added to which > all your presentation information, such as width and height are inline > to boot. What you want to strive for is plain simple HTML, with > externally linked CSS and JS files. This approach is sometimes > referred to as 'three layers'. That being Content (HTML), Presentation > (CSS) and finally Behaviours (Javascript). > > Presuming this is not just a practice piece of work and the error your > getting is just within your browser, I don't think there is a simple > bit of 'code' that will fix this. Moving forward I can only suggest > you change your methods in line with the sentiments of the standards > group. > > Personally if your starting out I can't recommend Ian Lloyd's 'Build > your website the right way, using HTML and CSS' from Sitepoint, and > 'HTML Dog, The best-practice guide to XHTML & CSS' by Patrick > Griffiths enough. > > All the best, > John Unsworth > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [email protected] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
